That would be like Lazarus with a triple bypass. I mean, really,
break it down. May 9, 1989 on his chances of becoming Liberal
leader again after losing the leadership.

Howard: There's no way a GST will ever be part
of our policy.Reporter: Never ever?Howard: Never ever. It's dead. It was killed by the voters
in the last election.May 2, 1995

We decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in
which they come. Election campaign launch speech, October 28,
2001

If the party wants me to lead it to another election, which will
be at the end of next year, I am happy to do so. After that
obviously one has to recognise, I'll then be in my 63rd or 64th
year, and you start to ask yourself, and that's fair enough. And
nothing is forever. And I don't have the view that I am so
indispensable and so important and so vital that you know the
Liberal Party will be bereft without me. That is an arrogant view.
On his 61st birthday, July 26, 2000

I accept full responsibility for the Liberal Party campaign, and
I therefore accept full responsibility for the Coalition's defeat
in this election campaign. I owe more to the Liberal Party than the
Liberal Party owes to me. The Liberal Party has been unbelievably
generous and loyal and forgiving and understanding to me over the
33 years I've been in Parliament, the 15 or more years that I have
led it and the 11½ that I have been Prime Minister. And I will
love the Liberal Party for the rest of my life, and I will always
feel greatly in debt to the party that has meant so much to me.
Saturday night, concession speech

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